General Hospital' and the great Franco mistake

‘General Hospital’ head writer Ron Carlivati made his first big mistake this week – at least for me.

I know a lot of soap fans think he made his first big mistake when he killed off Jason Morgan – but I applauded that decision (and still do).

The reveal this week that Roger Howarth was the presumed dead Franco (a character originated by the Oscar nominated James Franco) had just about every ‘General Hospital’ fan I know scratching their head. I was one of those fans.

When it looked like Howarth was portraying as Franco last week, I had my doubts. The anvils Carlivati was dropping had me convinced that this couldn’t possibly be Franco. I didn’t believe he would be so heavy-handed in his writing. Looks like I was wrong. Read more here